Olexandr Sych: Human rights defenders from the U.S.A stand ready to facilitate Ukraine in protection from Russian propaganda

American human rights defenders stated their readiness to facilitate in counteraction the Russian propaganda that undermines the information space of Ukraine during the 23 years of building of the Ukrainian state. The Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine Oleksandr Sych informed on the outcomes of the working meeting with the delegation of the American human rights organization " Union of Councils for Jews in the Former Soviet Union”.

The top official highly evaluated the efforts of the U.S. civil society directed to informing the global community on current events in our country and thanked the American people and the state for moral and material support, Ukraine has always felt and continues to receive in one of the toughest periods of state formation.

"The friends in need are friends indeed. Russia has deliberately been ruining our army, security, information space and has struck at the moment when the Ukrainian state was unarmed. Your help is especially valuable in times of physical and information war started by Russia, when we are forced to build the army "just-in-time", to strengthen the protection and security of the information space, when regime of Putin is terrified of revolutionary spirits in the Russian society, thus it strives at all costs to undermine the noble aim much protected by the Ukrainian Maidan", - said the Vice Prime Minister.

During the meeting the parties discussed the mechanisms ethnic tolerance, maintaining tight cooperation between human rights organizations in Ukraine and the U.S.A. in the sphere of preserving the national memory and neutralizing information threats for the Ukrainian people from the aggressor. "One of the most effective tools for such cooperation can become the Council of Ethnic Consent within the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, that is called to ensure powerful impact of the Ukrainian civil society on the formation of a public policy in this area", - said Olexandr Sych.

In turn, the American delegation assured the Vice-Prime Minister in readiness to further provide assistance to the Ukrainian people in building democratic principles of state development, protection of human rights, maintaining peace and stability.